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Using Magnetic Resonance Techniques to Study the Brain and Brain Diseases |
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Andy Stenger, Ph.D. Associate Professor |
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Email: stenger@hawaii.edu Phone: 808-585-5159 Fax: 808-586-7486 |
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Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, 1356 Lusitana Street, University Tower, 7th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96813 |
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EDUCATION 1989 - B.S. Physics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT 1989-1992 Teaching Assistant, Ohio State University Dept. of Physics, Columbus, OH 1992-1996 Research Assistant, Ohio State University Dept. of Physics, Columbus, OH 1996-1998 Research Associate in Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1998-1999 Research Instructor in Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1999-2002 Research Assistant Professor in Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2002-2004 Assistant Professor in Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2004-2005 Associate Professor in Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2005-Pres Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI PEER-REVIWED PUBLICATIONS V. A. Stenger, C. H. Recchia, C. H. Pennington, D. R. Buffinger, and R. P. Ziebarth, NMR studies of alkali C60 superconductors, Journal of Superconductivity, Vol. 7, pp. 931-936, 1994. V. A. Stenger, C. H. Pennington, D. R. Buffinger, and R. P. Ziebarth, Nuclear magnetic resonance of A3C60 superconductors, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 74, pp. 1649-1652, 1995. V. A. Stenger, D. C. Noll, and F. E. Boada, Partial k-space reconstruction for 3D gradient echo functional MRI: a comparison of phase correction methods, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 40, pp. 481-490, 1998. V. A. Stenger, S. Peltier, F. E. Boada, D. C. Noll, 3D Spiral Cardiac/Respiratory Ordered fMRI Data Acquisition at 3 Tesla, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 41, pp. 983-991, 1999. C. S. Carter, A. M. MacDonald, L. L. Ross, V. A. Stenger, D. C. Noll, and J. D. Cohen, Parsing executive processes: strategic versus evaluative functions of the anterior cingulate cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A, Vol. 97, pp. 1944-48, 2000. W. MacDonald, J. D. Cohen, V. A. Stenger, and C. S. Carter, Dissociating the role of Dorsolateral Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in cognitive control. Science Vol. 288, pp. 1835-1838, 2000. V. A. Stenger, F. E. Boada, D. C. Noll, Three-Dimensional Tailored RF Pulses for the Reduction of Susceptibility Artifacts in T2*-Weighted Functional MRI, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 44, pp. 525-531, 2000. M. H. Sohn, S. Ursu, J. Anderson, V. A. Stenger, and C. S. Carter, The Role of Prefrontal Cortex and Posterior Parietal Cortex in Task Switching, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A, Vol. 97, pp. 13448-13453, 2000. H. Aizenstein, A. W. MacDonald, V. A. Stenger, R. D. Nebes, J. K. Larson, S. Ursu, C. S. Carter, Complementary category learning systems identified using event-related functional MRI. J. Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 12, pp. 977-987, 2000. V. van Veen, J. D. Cohen, M. M. Botvinick, V. A. Stenger, C. S. Carter, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Conflict Monitoring, and Levels of Processing, Neuroimage, Vol. 14, pp. 1302-1308, 2001. C. S. Carter, A. W. MacDonald, L. L. Ross, V. A. Stenger, Anterior Cingulate Cortex Activity and Impaired Self-Monitoring of Performance in Patients with Schizophrenia: an Event-Related fMRI Study, American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 158, pp. 1423-1428, 2001. W. M. Perlstein, T. Elbert, V. A. Stenger, Dissociation in human prefrontal cortex of affective influences on working memory-related activity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A, Vol. 99, pp. 1736-1741, 2002. J. M. Fincham, C. S. Carter, V. van Veen, V. A. Stenger, J. R. Anderson, Neural Mechanisms of Planning: a Computational Analysis Using Event-Related fMRI, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 99, pp.3346-3351, 2002. V. A. Stenger, F. E. Boada, and D. C. Noll, Multi-Shot 3D Slice-Select Tailored RF Pulses for MRI, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 48, pp. 157-165, 2002. Y. Qin, M.-H. Sohn, J. Anderson, V. A. Stenger, A. Goode, C. S. Carter. Predicting practice effects on the BOLD response during fMRI of a symbol manipulation task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A, Vol. 100, pp. 4951-4956, 2003. M. H. Sohn, A, Goode, V. A. Stenger, C. S. Carter, and J. R. Anderson, Competition and representation during memory retrieval: Roles of prefrontal cortex and the posterior parietal cortex, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A, Vol. 100, pp. 7412-7417, 2003. M. R. Delgado, H. M. Locke, V. A. Stenger, J. A. Fiez, Dorsal striatum responses to reward and punishment: effects of valance and magnitude manipulations, Cognitive Affective Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 3, pp. 27-38, 2003. S. Ursu, V. A. Stenger, M. K. Shear, M. K. Jones, C. S. Carter. Overactive action monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging, Psychological Science, Vol. 14, pp. 347-353, 2003. G. Siegle, S. Steinhauer, V. A. Stenger, R. O. Konecky, C. S. Carter. The concomitant use of pupil dilatation to inform the interpretation and analysis of fMRI data. NeuroImage, Vol. 20, pp. 114-124, 2003. J. R. Anderson, Y. Qin, M.-H. Sohn, V. A. Stenger, C. S. Carter. An information-processing model of the BOLD response during symbol manipulation tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Vol. 10, pp. 241-261, 2003. V. A. Stenger, F. E. Boada, and D. C. Noll, Variable Density Spiral 3D Tailored RF Pulses. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 50, pp. 1100-1106, 2003. H. Aizenstein, V. A. Stenger, V., J. Cochran, K. A. Clark, M. Johnson, M., R. Nebes, and C. S. Carter. Regional Brain Activation During Concurrent Implicit and Explicit Sequence Learning. Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 14, pp. 199-208, 2004. J. C. May, M. R. Delgado, R. E. Dahl, V. A. Stenger, N. D. Ryan, J. A. Fiez, and C. S. Carter. Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward-related brain circuitry in children and adolescents. Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 55, pp. 359-366, 2004. K. G. Kerns, J. D. Cohen, A. W. MacDonald, R. Y. Cho, V. A. Stenger, and C. S. Carter. Anterior cingulate conflict monitoring and adjustments in control. Science, Vol. 303, pp. 1023-1026, 2004. Y. Qin, C. S. Carter, E. M. Silk, V. A. Stenger, K. Fissell, A. Goode and J. Anderson,. The change of the brain activation patterns as children learn algebra equation solving. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A, Vol. 101, pp. 5686-5691, 2004. H. J. Aizenstein, K. A. Clark, M. A. Butters, J. L. Cochran, V. A. Stenger, C. C. Meltzer, C. F. Reynolds 3rd, C. S. Carter. The BOLD Hemodynamic Response in Healthy Aging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Vol. 16, pp. 786-93, 2004. S. D. Forman, G. G. Dougherty, B. J. Casey, G. J. Siegle, T. S. Braver, D. M. Barch, V. A. Stenger, C. Wick-Hull, L. A. Pisarov, E. Lorensen. Opiate Addicts Lack Error-Dependent Activation of Rostral Anterior Cingulate. Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 55, pp. 531-537, 2004. Zhu H, Buck DG, Zhang Z, Zhang H, Wang P, Stenger VA, Prince MR, Wang Y. High temporal and spatial resolution 4D MRA using spiral data sampling and sliding window reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 52, pp. 14-8, 2004. K. G. Kerns, J. D. Cohen, V. A. Stenger, and C. S. Carter. Prefrontal cortex guides context-appropriate responding during language production. Neuron, Vol. 43, pp. 283-91, 2004. S. W. Derbyshire, M. G. Whalley, V. A. Stenger, D. A. Oakley. Cerebral activation during hypnotically induced and imagined pain. Neuroimage, Vol. 23, pp. 392-401, 2004. Y. Qian, Z. Zhang, V. A. Stenger, and Y. Wang. Self-calibrated spiral SENSE. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 52, pp. 688-92, 2004. S. Saekho, F. E. Boada, D. C. Noll, V. A. Stenger. A small tip-angle three-dimensional tailored RF pulse for reduced B1 inhomogeneity at 3T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 53, pp. 479-484, 2005. W. MacDonald, C. S. Carter, J. G. Kerns, S. Ursu, D. M. Barch, A. J. Holmes, V. A. Stenger, and J. D. Cohen, Specificity of prefrontal dysfunction and context processing deficits in schizophrenia in never-medicated patients with first-episode psychosis. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 162, pp. 475-484, 2005. M. H. Sohn, A, Goode, V. A. Stenger, K. J. Jung, C. S. Carter, and J. R. Anderson, An information-processing model of three cortical regions: evidence in episodic memory retrieval. Neuroimage, Vol. 25, pp. 21-33, 2005. V. van Veen, C. B. Holroyd, J. D. Cohen, V. A. Stenger, and C. S. Carter, Errors without conflict: implications of performance monitoring theories of anterior cingulated cortex. Brain Cogn, Vol. 56, pp. 267-276, 2005. H. J. Aizenstein, M. A. Butters, J. L. Figurski, V. A. Stenger, C. F. Reynolds 3rd, C. S. Carter. Prefrontal and striatal activation during sequence learning in geriatric depression. Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 58(4), pp. 290-296, 2005. K. G. Kerns, J. D. Cohen, A. W. MacDonald 3rd, M. K. Johnson, V. A. Stenger, H. J. Aizenstein, and C. S. Carter. Decreased conflict- and error-related activity in the anterior cingulate cortex in subjects with schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 162, pp. 1833-9, 2005. S. Saekho, C.-Y. Yip, F. E. Boada, D. C. Noll, V. A. Stenger. A fast-kz tailored RF pulse for V. A. Stenger, M. S. Giurgi, F. E. Boada, D. C. Noll. Excitation UNFOLD (XUNFOLD) to improve the temporal resolution of multishot tailored RF pulses. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 56(3), pp. 692-697, 2006. W. Grissom, C.-Y. Yip, Z. Zhang, V. A. Stenger, J. A. Fessler, and D. C. Noll. Spatial domain method for the design of RF pulses in multicoil parallel excitation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 56(3), pp. 620-629, 2006. Zhang Z, Yip CY, Grissom W, Noll DC, Boada FE, Stenger VA. Reduction of transmitter B1 inhomogeneity with transmit SENSE slice-select pulses. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 57(5), pp. 842-847, 2007. S. Ursu, K. A. Clark, H. J. Aizenstein, V. A. Stenger, C. S. Carter. Conflict-related activity in the caudal anterior cingulate cortex in the absence of awareness. To be published in Biological Psychiatry. S. Ursu, K. A. Clark, V. A. Stenger, C. S. Carter. Distinguishing expected negative outcomes from preparatory control in the human orbitofrontal cortex. Brain Research, Vol. 1227, pp.110-119, 2008. H. J. Aizenstein, M. A. Butters, L. M. Mazurkewicz, V. A. Stenger, P. J. Genaros, J. T. Becker, C. F. Reynolds 3rd, C. S. Carter. Altered Functioning of the Executive Control Circuit in Late-Life Depression: Episodic and Persistent Phenomena. To be published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. W. Deng, V. Alagappan, L. L. Wald, F. E. Boada, and V. A. Stenger, Simultaneous z-shim technique using parallel transmitters for reduced susceptibility artifacts, to be published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Y. Qian, V. A. Stenger, F. E. Boada. Parallel Imaging with 3D TPI Trajectory: SNR and Acceleration Benefits. To be published in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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